New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-07
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
,,rs,c.1 history AND MUSICAL METHODS.

MUSICAL HISlOhI AM HoSA
TIE STANDARD oRAToRTos; Their Stories, scs Their
MnsS sns u unsS pp pSs5 chicago u No
Ciarg Co.
THE VOICE FROM A PRACTICAL STANDPOINT; ,,l by
A. Pond Co.
z,sruErIcs OF THE ART OF SINGING AN h,, YF
MELODRAMA; AND VOCAL All t. a by f. musical
and nictoriai illustrations New-York; u. ochiii'e'
PRACTICAL METHOD OF SINGING BY Joshrh''A
RAND. New-York: Edgar D werner
Mr. IInton,s book is companion Voiuno
IN "Ihe STANDARD Operas, ana like 'no Low
fu,6ls all that is promised In the utio MI oP
TON makes absolutely no pretensions ana ois'ih"
criticism at the outset by saying that MS po' ""'
prepared "for the general public rather IMAM ior
musicians and that description not criticism
is the purpose of the volume OnquestiohaoV
such work has d mission; it is an incentive 10
more thoughtful attention than thai usually
bcstowed mon musical entertainments 10 "hioii
the majority Of the public give the ACTIVITY o. 'iei
cars only Mr. Upton has prefaced MS uescrip0io"
of the oratorios which can DC SAD 10 pe Oh o"0
active list with historical sRelch VI .iio ~"
and development of the oratoro as an aiU io.in
and he has supplemented 1t WIN orici re'io"
81 .s,crcd Music in America setting foith In
an entertaining manner the struggles OF the NC"
tnr,.nd ccjonists over the subject of n proper
church service, anu lOuOWiiS III 'H'
lines that are familiar to all students OF American
mrS,cal history. We should like 10 SEQ I'm
MIR Iptop's pen book of musical criticisms. Tic
,,r,.irr n,,,,, sb.rs who could doubtless
no rersuaded that considerable portion OF inc
r,,hnc * NOW ready for some Of the wine and meat
of musical literature.
MIR. Myers book on the voice Is another Illus
tration OF the modern habit OF carrying one
htG
words in q grip-sack and ones thouehVs III "
tbimb,e II what is sound and practicable in the
hook were extracted and reduced In expression "
its lowest terms, ninctcnths of the two hundred
races mieht have been saved for better use
Mr.. Myer we fancy, is n teacher OF singing ana
consequently is forced to write book TO clear
nm the errors Of all his brothers and sisters IN the
profession IL is for this purpose THAI Singing
teachers exist in these days. Year by year good
singers become less. and day by day DOCKS Oh
the vocal art, "the only true melhou Viie
particlar authors method, OF course the physi
o,ocv of the voice and score of cognate subjects
bccoroo moro numerous 1t will not be long before
the singing teacher who has not written DOCK
win be q curiosity Mr.. Myer makes his BOOK
largely of copious extracts from MS previous
publications, and from the writings OF others III
newspapers and handboOlIs and by pestilerous
iteration of his own thoughts. He has one idea
he reaches it, 1t is that neither the French
Italian nor German methods satisfactory In
Tho case of the English speaking ana
English singing voice" owing ito the difference
in the physical or vowel formation of the different
languages This point by the way Miss Rahd
in The book of exercises whose title we nave
quoted and which we must dismiss with warm
commentator for the excellence OF It's material
and the clearness and conclseneSs OF utlerahce III
the explanatory portion especially In the DIVISION
on breathing, covers by the simple ADVICE
- Above all thines let the English pupil make a
study of the English language and let the teacher
insist on clear and perfect articulation oil
every vowel and consonant in the English alpha
bet each being practised separately III the halural
speakins-vocc great many times Before leaV-
ing this department Of musical literature IL may
not be out Of place TO note the fact that Voice,
Song and Speech" by Lcnnox Browne and Emil
Behnkc, has just gone into seventh edition.
Signor Dele Sedie, author of the voluminous
volumes on singing which remain to be notced'
was in his day famous baritone and has hlled a
chair at the Paris Conservatory He is sill teach
ing vocal music in the French capital, though no
longer counted among the bright lights OF the
profession Ills works are on old models the
first volume especially. In this, after going
Through the I1idiments of vocal culture, he takes
up operatic singing, and with the aid OF scenes
from Italian operas points the way 10 the attain
ment of the effects with which opera singers win
applause. OF a knowledge of the new spirit OF
the lyric DRAMA naturally, lie is guitless. 10 the
last volume, which is more general In It's aims'
he has had Dr.. Mandl prefix an essay on the
mechanism of the voice. The book ON operate
singing is printed in English French and Italian,
the ether IN English alone. The works, though
published by MIR. Schirmer in this country, were
printed in Italy,